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  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the ... makes NO sense. I should be showing you a normal day in my life - not some ... ="123718" image3="123720" image4="123721" /] 12:35 AM: Currently in 8

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask.In ... dirt driveway in our costumes, usually something my mother sewed for us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... . I've learned that fear is often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning ... ’ve grown close to the people in the club: those who are just as eager to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post ... graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... electronics at decision release time and—in fact—forget about it until later ... button.[/annotation] In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... early in the term and you'll see what I mean. https://vimeo.com/893853200 ... creativity, product design, teamwork, and working within a budget in a unifying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in ... , [annotation note='I suggest you go practice logging in there now, so that you ... password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math ... college textbook—and read it cover-to-cover. In seventh grade, he begged and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three-month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when ... wrong was when I woke up and saw light streaming in from my window

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won ... were made, some for Ukrainian students in particular and some for any

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... meant putting down whatever mess going on in my head into words and making ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... raised me. As my mom worked long hours in a city three hours away, a lot of my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... been happening in my life that i could write about. i could maybe talk

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021